WordPress 3.1 is in release candidate versions and is expected for public consumption anytime.

If you are running WordPress, you might be wondering about the new features. The WordPress team won’t disappoint you as there are many nice features coming in 3.1. Here is a brief overview of

WordPress 3.1 New Features

Post FormatsThis has been implemented in WordPress in roundabout ways. However, 9 different post formats are supported out of the box now in 3.1 They are aside, chat, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, or audio. Codex: Post Formats Article: Lisa Sabin Wilson

Internal LinkingI now use Windows Live Writers ability to auto-attach certain words with links for internal linking. WordPress now will let you search your content in the ‘Insert link’ menu and link to your articles easily. Incredibly useful to revive/discover your old content.

With an ‘author_template_candidates’ hook, I could manipulate the actual hierarchy.

I am certainly looking forward to the changes in WordPress 3.1 and will post on my upgrade experiences if I face any hiccups.

I gleaned the list of features from the excellent article by Aaron at Technosailor.com – author of WordPress Bible. I highly recommend reading his post if you are inclined to learn more details on this.